Dec 6 Monday Night Open Thread: You Could Never Talk to [Fill in the Blank]

I just finished watching the last part of the Prop 8 arguments in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Ted Olson argued for usThis is the same Ted Olson that argued Bush v. Gore. For Bush. The same Ted Olson that was the Solicitor General of the United States under George W. Bush. If the Left were going pariah shopping, we couldn't do much better than Ted Olson.

Yet, here he is, leading the fight for same sex marriage - a progressive cause, the civil rights cause of our time. There stands a man that is my reason to never say "I will never talk to my political opposition," no matter how disparate our views are. Let it also be a lesson for those who are constantly angry because President Obama keeps the door open to talking to his political opponents. Politics makes strange bedfellows, but more importantly, politics is the art of the possible.

I leave you with Ted Olson hitting it out of the park for us on Fox News, no less: